From: gzimak@yahoo.com (Gary Z)
Subject: Re: Trying to merge two files with emacs... need help!
Date: 12 May 2004 04:50:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b0141914.0405120350.e0bc4aa@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4725.1084338189.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote in message news:<mailman.4725.1084338189.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>...
> > From: gzimak@yahoo.com (Gary Z)
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> > Date: 11 May 2004 20:25:04 -0700
> >
> > I'm new to emacs and I'm trying to use it to merge two files into one.
> > Some time ago, I watched a co-worker step through a file and
> > selectively merge changes into it from another file. Unfortunately, I
> > don't recall how he did it! Currently, I'm opening a file with emacs,
> > selecting diff (2 files) from the menu, specifying the current file
> > and the file I want to merge into the current file.
>
> I hope that was a typo, and you actually meant to say that you select
> "Merge" from the menu bar, not "Diff".
It actually was a typo, but not the one you suggested. I'm chosing
"Compare Two files" from the menu. I was trying not to use Merge,
since I wanted more control over how conflicts are handled. Am I going
about it the wrong way?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-12 11:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-12 3:25 Trying to merge two files with emacs... need help! Gary Z
2004-05-12 6:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.4725.1084338189.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-05-12 11:50 ` Gary Z [this message]
2004-05-12 20:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-12 20:44 ` LEE Sau Dan
2004-05-12 12:21 ` Kevin Dziulko
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